To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 26 | Wednesday October 1, 2008
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
11 · Sudoku
13 · Classified
16 · Sports
Prayer Pause: USC faculty
holds weekly multi-faith
meditations. PAGE 7
Moving On: Trojans try to get past
Oregon State loss, focus on Oregon.
PAGE 16
Havaianas Sandals came to campus this week for a two-day festival to promote its footwear. During
Color War, students were able to participate in games such as Twister, Limbo and water-filled balloon
darts. The pre-registered team of six that won the competition was given a four-day trip to Brazil.
Color War
Minnie Jan | Daily Trojan
By tiffanie wu
Daily Trojan
Almost two weeks after the fa-tal
stabbing of USC student Bryan
Richard Frost, Department of
Public Safety officials said one of
their security cameras located at
Helena Apartments at 28th Street
and Orchard Avenue recorded foot-age
relevant to the incident, which
occurred Sept. 18.
“The angle caught portions of
what happened, but it didn’t catch
the entire crime,” DPS Capt. John
Thomas said. “It definitely provid-ed
information the detectives were
able to use in their investigation.”
The camera is one of 17 current-ly
installed in the North University
Park area, and DPS Capt. David
Carlisle said DPS hopes to add more
cameras in coming years.
The cameras are monitored 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, in two
hour shifts by Community Service
Officers who receive special train-ing
to operate the system and rec-ognize
suspicious behavior such as
loitering.
“As an example, someone hang-ing
out in a carport at 3 o’clock in
the morning with no apparent rea-son
may be worth watching if there
have been reports of auto burglar-ies
in the area,” Carlisle said.
Cameras
aided LAPD
investigation
DPS security cameras caught
portions of the incident that
ended in the death of a student.
| see camera, page 2 |
By christianna kyriacou
Daily Trojan
A recent study conducted by Annenberg School for
Communication assistant professor Dmitri Williams
has found that many of the most common stereotypes
associated with video gamers are false.
Using the role-playing game ““EverQuest II”,” the
study found that while conventional wisdom suggests
that the average gamer is a teenage male, the true av-erage
gamer is 31 years old. Williams also found that
women, while only constituting 20 percent of gamers,
play for longer time spans than men.
According to the study, video gamers on average
are more social than expected and healthier than the
general population.
In the study, 7,000 players were given a survey that
Study finds video
gamers not defined
by age or gender
The new study finds the average age of the video
gamer is 31; women play for longer duration.
| see game, page 14 |
By Steffi lau
Daily Trojan
Undergraduate Student
Government unveiled a new reso-lution
Tuesday urging the univer-sity
to crack down on people tak-ing
recyclables from campus bins.
The resolution, “Safety
Advances for Every Student —
Securing Trojan Sustainability
(SAFE),” encourages the Board of
Trustees to create a policy autho-rizing
Department of Public Safety
to prohibit individuals from scour-ing
trash bins on campus. The
resolution, the first in a series of
safety-related proposals set to be
unveiled by USG this fall, is aimed
at improving both safety and sus-tainability
efforts on campus.
DPS enforces Los Angeles city
law unless otherwise instructed
by university policy. Because Los
Angeles law currently allows in-dividuals
to collect items from
unlocked, public trash cans, DPS
would need approval from the
Trustees to enact the extra secu-rity
measure.
Residential Senator Henry
Pfirrmann, the author of the reso-lution,
said though that the issue
was first addressed as a sustain-ability
issue, but it soon became
clear that safety was the real issue.
“Due to recent events, safety is
now pushed to the forefront,” he
said. “To go home, I have to walk
through an alley and there were
times I would have felt safer if
there weren’t unlocked bins.”
According to the resolution, the
DPS has statistics demonstrating
that a significant number of recy-cling
gatherers have criminal re-cords.
USG resolution urges ban on ‘recycling gatherers’
USG says people who take
recyclables out of campus
Dumpsters pose safety threat.
| see recycle, page 2 |
Lily Sims-Williams | Daily Trojan
Game on · A new study has found that the frequent gamer demographic is not domi-nated
by teenage boys as previously assumed. Women make up 20 percent of gamers.
By natalie chau
Daily Trojan
The student loan industry is strug-gling
to continue business as usual,
while markets around the world tee-ter
in anticipation of a Congressional
bailout approval.
“Student loans have been pret-ty
hard hit,” said Michael Kim, vice
president of student services at the
USC Credit Union.
Because the national crisis has
been blamed largely on an influx of
subprime mortgage defaults, banks
are acting especially conservative
and being more selective in lending
practices. This makes finding a loan
significantly more difficult, especial-ly
for lower-income students.
“For some students, they may
have to find a different lender. Some
loan providers will not offer student
loans,” Kim said.
Kim, however, said he does not
think USC students will find them-selves
at a disadvantage. While some
lenders have stopped offering loans
to some schools, USC has been pro-tected
and is expected to maintain
relationships with currently available
lenders.
But experts say loans can often be
deceiving since lenders give students
money through special servicers,
which require their own minimum
payments
Susan Ikerd, associate dean and
director of the USC financial aid of-fice,
said students should pay atten-tion
to the sources of their loans, be-cause
often, different lenders have
different servicers, requiring even
more money.
“They may have to make two pay-ments
a month,” Ikerd said, if they
use two lenders with two different
servicers.
Ikerd said she encourages students
to research the lenders and make sure
they are using the same servicers to
avoid paying more each month.
The financial aid office will pub-lish
a new approved lenders list in
January, with changes in lenders
based off of the servicers the banks
use. Some students, such as Meron
Begashaw, said they feel that as long
Student lenders scale
back after meltdown
In the wake of a crisis rooted
in subprime mortgage defaults,
students lenders are cautious.
| see loan, page 14 |

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 165, NO. 26 | Wednesday October 1, 2008
InDEX
2 · News Digest
4 · Opinion
7 · Lifestyle
11 · Sudoku
13 · Classified
16 · Sports
Prayer Pause: USC faculty
holds weekly multi-faith
meditations. PAGE 7
Moving On: Trojans try to get past
Oregon State loss, focus on Oregon.
PAGE 16
Havaianas Sandals came to campus this week for a two-day festival to promote its footwear. During
Color War, students were able to participate in games such as Twister, Limbo and water-filled balloon
darts. The pre-registered team of six that won the competition was given a four-day trip to Brazil.
Color War
Minnie Jan | Daily Trojan
By tiffanie wu
Daily Trojan
Almost two weeks after the fa-tal
stabbing of USC student Bryan
Richard Frost, Department of
Public Safety officials said one of
their security cameras located at
Helena Apartments at 28th Street
and Orchard Avenue recorded foot-age
relevant to the incident, which
occurred Sept. 18.
“The angle caught portions of
what happened, but it didn’t catch
the entire crime,” DPS Capt. John
Thomas said. “It definitely provid-ed
information the detectives were
able to use in their investigation.”
The camera is one of 17 current-ly
installed in the North University
Park area, and DPS Capt. David
Carlisle said DPS hopes to add more
cameras in coming years.
The cameras are monitored 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, in two
hour shifts by Community Service
Officers who receive special train-ing
to operate the system and rec-ognize
suspicious behavior such as
loitering.
“As an example, someone hang-ing
out in a carport at 3 o’clock in
the morning with no apparent rea-son
may be worth watching if there
have been reports of auto burglar-ies
in the area,” Carlisle said.
Cameras
aided LAPD
investigation
DPS security cameras caught
portions of the incident that
ended in the death of a student.
| see camera, page 2 |
By christianna kyriacou
Daily Trojan
A recent study conducted by Annenberg School for
Communication assistant professor Dmitri Williams
has found that many of the most common stereotypes
associated with video gamers are false.
Using the role-playing game ““EverQuest II”,” the
study found that while conventional wisdom suggests
that the average gamer is a teenage male, the true av-erage
gamer is 31 years old. Williams also found that
women, while only constituting 20 percent of gamers,
play for longer time spans than men.
According to the study, video gamers on average
are more social than expected and healthier than the
general population.
In the study, 7,000 players were given a survey that
Study finds video
gamers not defined
by age or gender
The new study finds the average age of the video
gamer is 31; women play for longer duration.
| see game, page 14 |
By Steffi lau
Daily Trojan
Undergraduate Student
Government unveiled a new reso-lution
Tuesday urging the univer-sity
to crack down on people tak-ing
recyclables from campus bins.
The resolution, “Safety
Advances for Every Student —
Securing Trojan Sustainability
(SAFE),” encourages the Board of
Trustees to create a policy autho-rizing
Department of Public Safety
to prohibit individuals from scour-ing
trash bins on campus. The
resolution, the first in a series of
safety-related proposals set to be
unveiled by USG this fall, is aimed
at improving both safety and sus-tainability
efforts on campus.
DPS enforces Los Angeles city
law unless otherwise instructed
by university policy. Because Los
Angeles law currently allows in-dividuals
to collect items from
unlocked, public trash cans, DPS
would need approval from the
Trustees to enact the extra secu-rity
measure.
Residential Senator Henry
Pfirrmann, the author of the reso-lution,
said though that the issue
was first addressed as a sustain-ability
issue, but it soon became
clear that safety was the real issue.
“Due to recent events, safety is
now pushed to the forefront,” he
said. “To go home, I have to walk
through an alley and there were
times I would have felt safer if
there weren’t unlocked bins.”
According to the resolution, the
DPS has statistics demonstrating
that a significant number of recy-cling
gatherers have criminal re-cords.
USG resolution urges ban on ‘recycling gatherers’
USG says people who take
recyclables out of campus
Dumpsters pose safety threat.
| see recycle, page 2 |
Lily Sims-Williams | Daily Trojan
Game on · A new study has found that the frequent gamer demographic is not domi-nated
by teenage boys as previously assumed. Women make up 20 percent of gamers.
By natalie chau
Daily Trojan
The student loan industry is strug-gling
to continue business as usual,
while markets around the world tee-ter
in anticipation of a Congressional
bailout approval.
“Student loans have been pret-ty
hard hit,” said Michael Kim, vice
president of student services at the
USC Credit Union.
Because the national crisis has
been blamed largely on an influx of
subprime mortgage defaults, banks
are acting especially conservative
and being more selective in lending
practices. This makes finding a loan
significantly more difficult, especial-ly
for lower-income students.
“For some students, they may
have to find a different lender. Some
loan providers will not offer student
loans,” Kim said.
Kim, however, said he does not
think USC students will find them-selves
at a disadvantage. While some
lenders have stopped offering loans
to some schools, USC has been pro-tected
and is expected to maintain
relationships with currently available
lenders.
But experts say loans can often be
deceiving since lenders give students
money through special servicers,
which require their own minimum
payments
Susan Ikerd, associate dean and
director of the USC financial aid of-fice,
said students should pay atten-tion
to the sources of their loans, be-cause
often, different lenders have
different servicers, requiring even
more money.
“They may have to make two pay-ments
a month,” Ikerd said, if they
use two lenders with two different
servicers.
Ikerd said she encourages students
to research the lenders and make sure
they are using the same servicers to
avoid paying more each month.
The financial aid office will pub-lish
a new approved lenders list in
January, with changes in lenders
based off of the servicers the banks
use. Some students, such as Meron
Begashaw, said they feel that as long
Student lenders scale
back after meltdown
In the wake of a crisis rooted
in subprime mortgage defaults,
students lenders are cautious.
| see loan, page 14 |